Re: [PATCH 5/8] generic/772: actually check for file_getattr special file support

["Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2025 at 01:14:29PM +0530, Nirjhar Roy (IBM) wrote:
> On Wed, 2025-10-15 at 09:38 -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
> > 
> > On XFS in 6.17, this test fails with:
> > 
> >  --- /run/fstests/bin/tests/generic/772.out	2025-10-06 08:27:10.834318149 -0700
> >  +++ /var/tmp/fstests/generic/772.out.bad	2025-10-08 18:00:34.713388178 -0700
> >  @@ -9,29 +9,34 @@ Can not get fsxattr on ./foo: Invalid ar
> >   Can not set fsxattr on ./foo: Invalid argument
> >   Initial attributes state
> >   ----------------- SCRATCH_MNT/prj
> >  ------------------ ./fifo
> >  ------------------ ./chardev
> >  ------------------ ./blockdev
> >  ------------------ ./socket
> >  ------------------ ./foo
> >  ------------------ ./symlink
> >  +Can not get fsxattr on ./fifo: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> >  +Can not get fsxattr on ./chardev: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> >  +Can not get fsxattr on ./blockdev: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> >  +Can not get fsxattr on ./socket: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> > 
> > This is a result of XFS' file_getattr implementation rejecting special
> > files prior to 6.18.  Therefore, skip this new test on old kernels.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
> > ---
> >  tests/generic/772 |    3 +++
> >  tests/xfs/648     |    3 +++
> >  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
> > 
> > 
> > diff --git a/tests/generic/772 b/tests/generic/772
> > index cc1a1bb5bf655c..e68a6724654450 100755
> > --- a/tests/generic/772
> > +++ b/tests/generic/772
> > @@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ touch $projectdir/bar
> >  ln -s $projectdir/bar $projectdir/broken-symlink
> >  rm -f $projectdir/bar
> >  
> > +file_attr --get $projectdir ./fifo &>/dev/null || \
> > +	_notrun "file_getattr not supported on $FSTYP"
> > +
> Shouldn't we use $here/src/file_attr like we have done later (maybe just for consistency)?

Probably, but this test has (for now) a wrapper so I used that.

> Also, I am wondering if we can have something like
> _require_get_attr_for_special_files() helper kind of a thing?

Andrey's working on that.

--D

> --NR
> >  echo "Error codes"
> >  # wrong AT_ flags
> >  file_attr --get --invalid-at $projectdir ./foo
> > diff --git a/tests/xfs/648 b/tests/xfs/648
> > index 215c809887b609..e3c2fbe00b666a 100755
> > --- a/tests/xfs/648
> > +++ b/tests/xfs/648
> > @@ -47,6 +47,9 @@ touch $projectdir/bar
> >  ln -s $projectdir/bar $projectdir/broken-symlink
> >  rm -f $projectdir/bar
> >  
> > +$here/src/file_attr --get $projectdir ./fifo &>/dev/null || \
> > +	_notrun "file_getattr not supported on $FSTYP"
> > +
> >  $XFS_QUOTA_PROG -D $tmp.projects -P $tmp.projid -x \
> >  	-c "project -sp $projectdir $id" $SCRATCH_DEV | filter_quota
> >  $XFS_QUOTA_PROG -D $tmp.projects -P $tmp.projid -x \
> > 
> 
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